More Than Muscle?
Touchstone Pictures is noted for reviving lagging careers--like those of Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler and Robin Williams. Sylvester Stallone may not be on the ropes yet, but he seems seriously locked into the tough-guy terrain of “Rocky” and “Rambo.”
Touchstone will try to broaden Sly’s creative horizons with “Oscar,” a John Landis-directed comedy with Stallone starring as an Italian-American gangster who tries to go straight to honor his dying father’s last wish.
To be produced by Leslie Belzberg (the Landis-directed “Coming to America”), the project’s set in the ‘30s and includes characters such as the Finucci Brothers--Guido and Luigi--who pride themselves on having been tailors to the mob since 1921.
To shoot in the fall, the film marks Stallone’s only comedy since the ill-fated “Rhinestone” in 1984.
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